Spring Creek Health Care Center is in Fort Collins, Colorado. This city has a population of 175,625 people. We gave this nursing home an overall score of F. Fort Collins received a more impressive city grade of B+, so there are far better options in the city worth looking at. More information on this facility's category grades is available below. Its best category was inspections, which is discussed in the next section.
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Spring Creek Health Care Center
- Nursing Home
Updated Apr 1, 2023 by Nick Reese
Note: Spring Creek Health Care Center has been flagged for abuse in the past 12 months. We have capped this facility's overall grade accordingly.
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Quick Details
- Accepts Medicare 1
- Accepts Medicaid 1
- No CCRC
- Has Resident Council
- Has Family Council
- For profit - Corporation
- Offers Hospice
- Offers Inpatient Rehab
Specialized Services
- Personal Care
- Medication Management
- Home Making
- Transportation
- Medical Transportation
- Speech Therapy
- Stroke Recovery
- Amputee Recovery
- IV Antibiotic Therapy
- Dentistry
- Wound Care
- Occupational Therapy
- Cardiac Therapy
- Podiatry
- Diabetes Management
- Physical Therapy
- Nutritional Counseling
- Pharmacy
- Laboratory
- X-Ray
- Recreational Therapy
- Pain Management
- Orthopedic Rehabilitation
- Radiation Therapy
Registered Staff Hours
Facility Inspections
While we graded this facility incredibly poorly overall, it received a fairly respectable inspection report this year. As a result, it received a decent grade in that category with a score of B-. These inspection ratings take several factors into consideration, including deficiencies, substantiated complaints and federal fines. You can learn more about each of these items by reviewing copies of nursing homes' inspection reports. This particular nursing home received 5 deficiencies on its inspection report. In addition to having severe deficiencies, this nursing home was cited by CMS for possible abuse or neglect. This is generally a really bad sign. We would never recommend this facility.
Short-term Care Quality
Remarkably, we gave this nursing home a grade of C for its short-term care score, which is not too bad of a score. Our short-term care grades are thought to be most important for patients needing rehabilitation from their nursing home. Rehabilitation usually requires higher levels of highly-skilled nursing services. This means not merely nursing, but also physical and speech therapy, as well as other variations of therapy. Unfortunately, this place was below average in terms of its number of physical therapy and registered nurse hours provided to its patients based on the measures we assessed. The last metric we assessed in this category is the number of residents who ultimately returned home from the nursing home. We found that just 0 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.
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Nurse Quality
Unfortunately, this facility only received a grade of D for its nursing grade, which was actually one of its better category grades. We looked at the qualifications of nurses at the facility, in addition to the quantity of hours those nurses worked with patients, in calculating our score in this area. This facility provided just 0.3 hours of nursing care per resident per day. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. Lastly, we also assessed some nursing quality-based metrics in determining our nursing ratings. This nursing home fared well in terms of avoiding pressure ulcers and major falls. We consider these statistics to be reliable measures of the quality of nursing care.
Long-term Care Quality
The next category we scored was long-term care, which proved to be a weak spot for this facility. We gave this facility a grade of just D for our long-term care category. When facilities receive this type of grade in this category it is typically a bad sign for resident care and it may indicate that the place is not as well-staffed. Once we looked at the amount of care provided by aids and other staff, we then looked at the nursing home's vaccination record. Candidly, we were a bit worried that this facility vaccinated 58.193977 percent of its residents against pneumonia, which happens to be several points below what we were hoping for. To our surprise, this nursing home was actually able to limit hospitalizations. With only 0.03 hospitalizations per one thousand long-term resident days, this nursing home has fewer hospitalizations than most nursing homes. This is its best feature in this category.
Rating Over Time
Compared to national and state averages across all facilities.
Spring Creek Health Care Center Quality Metrics
Minimizes Pressure Ulcers
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 5.67% of Patients had Pressure Ulcers
This is the percentage of patients that suffered from a pressure ulcer. Pressure ulcers, also referred to as bed sores, are routinely the result of residents staying in one position for too long. Better nursing protocols limits the number of pressure ulcers sustained by residents in a nursing home.
Minimizes Serious Falls
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 3.72% of Patients had Serious Falls
This is the percentage of patients who suffered from a major fall. Falls resulting in major injuries are considered to be a barometer of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. Falls which result in injury are often caused by lower quality nursing care.
Minimizes Urinary Tract Infections
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 2.04% of Patients had UTIs
This is the percent of residents who suffered from a urinary tract infection. UTI's are considered to be an indicator of the quality of nursing care at a nursing home. UTI's are often caused by poor nursing care. Nevertheless, this metric could also be misleading for some nursing homes due to varying reporting standards for urinary tract infections.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Psychotic Medication
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 17.61% of Patients use Anti-Psychotic Medication
This tells you the percentage of residents who were prescribed antipsychotic drugs. While antipsychotic drugs may be vital to many patients, it is important to confirm these drugs are being used only where medically required. In some situations, high levels of antipsychotic drug use may indicate that a nursing home is using these medications to control patient behavior.
Appropriately Uses Anti-Anxiety Medication
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 12.49% of Patients use Anti-Anxiety Medication
This figure indicates the percentage of long-term patients which were prescribed antianxiety medication. These drugs are given to residents suffering from depression or anxiety.
Managing Depression Among Residents
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 3.91% of Patients
Measures the percent of long-term stay residents showing signs of depression. Some believe this is a measure of patient quality of life.
Appropriate Vaccine Usage
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 84.62% of Patients
This datapoint measures the percentage of long-term patients that have received the pneumonia and flu vaccines. Respiratory viruses can be deadly for nursing home residents, making these vaccines critical to patient care.
Residents Maintain Autonomy
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 15.34% Percentage of Patients
This tells you the percentage of residents that required increased assistance with activities of daily living over time. High levels of dependence on staff for assistance with activities of daily living may be a sign of deterioration of a resident's well-being.
Ability to Keep Residents Mobile
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 16.01% Percentage of Residents
This is the percentage of residents who maintained mobility over time. Preserving mobility is usually a great sign for residents' health.
Hospitalizations
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 1.17 Hospitalizations per 1,000 resident days
This is the number of times residents are hospitalized per 1,000 days of patient care. There is a correlation between staying out of the hospital and the overall quality of long-term care.
Short-term Care: Rehospitalizations
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 16.01 Percentage of Residents Rehospitalized
This tells you the number of times residents are rehospitalized per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: ER Visits
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 12.31 Percentage of Patients
This indicates the number of emergency room visits per 1,000 days of short-term care.
Short-term Care: Facilitates Functional Improvement
In Spring Creek Health Care Center, 76.2% Percentage of Resident
This datapoint is a measure of the percent of short-term residents who experienced functional improvements, such as with activities of daily living. Many in the industry would argue this is a reasonable measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation performance.
Scores for Fort Collins, CO
- Overall Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Nurse Rating has a grade of B-plus
- Long-term Care Rating has a grade of B-minus
- Short-term Care Rating has a grade of A-minus
- Inspection Rating has a grade of A-minus
Looking for more options? Fort Collins, Colorado has 5 other nursing homes
Nearby Hospitals
- Poudre Valley HospitalAcute Care Hospitals 0.71 miles away1024 S Lemay Ave Fort Collins Colorado 80524Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 495-7000
- Banner Fort Collins Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 3.87 miles away4700 Lady Moon Drive Fort Collins Colorado 80528Voluntary non-profit - Other(970) 821-4000
- Mckee Medical CenterAcute Care Hospitals 10.35 miles away2000 Boise Ave Loveland Colorado 80538Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 669-4640
- Medical Center of the RockiesAcute Care Hospitals 10.69 miles away2500 Rocky Mountain Avenue Loveland Colorado 80538Voluntary non-profit - Private(970) 624-2500
Nearby Dialysis
- Davita Fort Collins Dialysis0.58 miles away1601 Prospect Parkway Suite 180 Fort Collins Colorado 80525Dialysis Stations: 13 (970) 493-0753
- Northern Colorado Kidney Center (Fmc)1.01 miles away2107 S. Timberline Rd Fort Collins Colorado 80525Dialysis Stations: 20 (970) 482-2161
- Loveland Dialysis (Fmc)9.71 miles away2940 Ginnala Dr Loveland Colorado 80538CMS Rating: 4 stars Dialysis Stations: 20 (970) 663-9155
- Northern Colorado Home Therapy Dialysis (Fmc)11.04 miles away5285 Mcwhinney Blvd #190 Loveland Colorado 80538Dialysis Stations: 4 (970) 667-0596
- Loveland Central Dialysis (Dva)11.59 miles away1453 N Denver Ave Loveland Colorado 80538Dialysis Stations: 12 (970) 663-4607